First Fines For Spitting Loads on Roads
18th September 1959, Page 61
18th September 1959
Page 61
Page 61, 18th September 1959
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THE first prosecutions, under a new by-law which prohibits the spilling of materials on the highway, were heard by Wilnecote magistrates last week. Ernest Alan Hodgkins and Malcolm William Hodgkins, Little Onn, were each fined £4 on summonses for using vehicles from which "a wet substance" leaked.
Witnesses said that a lorry fully loaded with sludge—driven by Ernest Hodgkins —spilled its contents over the side and through a gap in the tailboard. Sludge was also dripping off a lorry driven by Malcolm Hodgkins.
John Henry Willis, Wright Road, Alum Rock, Birmingham, was also fined £2 for driving a lorry carrying a wet substance which leaked on to the highway. The owners of the vehicle. Coleman and Co. (Contractors), Birmingham, were fined £2.
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